Lenovo Now Offers Server Systems for SMBs, Midmarket Companies

Lenovo, which is best known for its line of ThinkPad notebooks, is looking to enter the worldwide x86 server market for the first time with five new server systems that will be now called the Lenovo ThinkServer line. In order to build the Lenovo ThinkServer line, Lenovo signed an agreement with IBM to license some of its intellectual property. In the x86 server market, Lenovo is looking to compete against HP, Dell and, to an extent, IBM.

Lenovo,
which has been expanding its line of notebooks and desktops since the beginning
of the year, will now try to carve out a piece of the x86 server market for
itself with a line of systems called ThinkServer.
At the 2008 Interop conference in New York,
which starts Sept. 16, Lenovo will preview five new ThinkServer servers. While
Lenovo is new to the worldwide x86 server market, it plans to concentrate its
first efforts on selling servers to small and midsize businesses and midmarket
companies.

The first of these ThinkServer systems, whose starting price begins at $749,
will go on sale Sept. 30, according to Lenovo.